Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Surah An Nisa , 4 : 116 -158

Excerpt from " A Thematic Commentary On The Qur'an "
Muhammad al-Ghazali [ 1917 - 1996 ]

Boasting about one's religion or beliefs is a hopeless pursuit. Sincere actions and sensible behaviour shall be the final criterion. Today we meet people who are so eager to express their pride in Islam, bragging about its superiority, integrity,and justice. However, when these same individuals are asked what contributions or sacrifices they have made for Islam, or what distinguishes them from followers of other religions, they would become dumbfounded. In response to these people, God says: "  It will not be in accordance with your desires, nor the desires of the People of the Scripture. He who doeth wrong will have the recompense thereof, and will not find against Allah any protecting friend or helper. (123) 

Nowadays, although while we find Christians and Jewish leaders openly and proudly identifying with the ideals and traditions of their religions, we rarely find political leaders of Muslim countries observing or respecting even the simple daily prayers.

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' in fact, most of them, with their 'kuncus' would rob their countries dry '
nik howk

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Recitation by Shaykh Abdul Rahman al-Sudais
[  ayat 111  -  ayat 158  ]
[   Time...  0:59:00  -    ]                          
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NbZq11a-4





Reflection and commentary by Mufti Hussain Kamani



ayat 116 - ayat 126  :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9mLeDfgug



..........crying for allah, a necessary pre requisite to cure a ' dry heart '

..........most ibadah intrinsically starts as a 'show off', than changes to a habit, and
          only latter rarely only become out of love. 'love' should be our final destination

..........idol worship; worship of ones desires; worshiping of  ones knowledge;
          ' devil ' worship..

.........anger is from syaitan; to wash 'anger', take an ablution.; anger is a weakness

.........control your anger

.........' garden where rivers flow in it '


.........jannah must be earned

..........allah love those who love his creations.




ayat 127 - ayat 134 :          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kNqeyvBs0A


........jahiliyah tradition on female orphans ; mutual consent necessary

......passion required in a marriage

.......if marriage turns sour or 'stale';  on sayyeditina saodah...

.......nusyuz ;

........on having multiple wives ; one will never ever be able to be 100 % just....it is 
        beyond human

.........if you have issues and they are irreconcilable, separate with grace..; fear allah..
        fear allah...fear allah ..ittakullah

........if you guys are not up to it, allah will replace you with others in your place

........do what allah asks you, allah will give you both the duniya and the akhirat!..

........" be aware of living a lavish life for indeed the servant of allah does not live a lavish life ''

........." ya umar , let the romans and persians enjoy their wealth for we are going to
          enjoy the akhirah..''



ayat 135 - ayat 141  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnY2AbcxOM



..........advice to remain just; stand firmly for justice; even if it is against yourselves.

.........testimonial in a court of law, a duty

.........believe in allah and HIS prophet

.........not accepting hadiths beyond bukhari and muslim is WRONG, WRONG, WRONG, 
         and WRONG! represent a 'confused' scholarship, a lack of adab.
       [ the 'wahabis' are mainly the culprits here, in their haste to 'simplify' the ugama. they 
          tend to rubbished a thousand years of scholarship!  a gross lack of adab to all those  
        scholars  ]

........loth mahfuz to al baitul mahmood : journey of the qur'an...

.......apostate : the islamic position.

........al munafikun : give him glad tiding that I am going to give him  a painful punishment

.........'if you are looking for honour, dont bow to creations, bow to the creator'

........don't join an occasion where the din is being mocked at.

.........al munafikun will be lumped along with the non believers.



ayat 142 - ayat 152  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbUqlxRTPYc


........all on al munafikun; 

.........on a scale of things, al munafikun is the lowest specie and genus in the 'animal kingdom'

........the deception of the al munafikun

........signs of al munafikun; hypocrisy in faith and hypocrisy in actions.

........abdul rahman bin auf....a muslim billionaire par excellence! [ a have written about thehis
        story of  his caravan arriving in madinah, many years post nabi, in an earlier posting  ]

........al munafikun  think they are too big and too smart to be with the believers.

........lowest level of  fire of hell; 7 levels altogether; ....' hawiyah '

........still open to repentance

.......al ghaniy




Reflection from Imam Zia ul Haque

http://imamzia.wordpress.com/tafseer-of-surah-an-nisaa-the-women-lesson-11/ ]

Click at lesson 24 onwards. I lost track of Mufti Hussain Kamani from ayat 152 onwards.
In lesson 24, Imam Zia starts his discussion from ayat 148



ayat 152 to 158 :


...........we have equal iman to all of allah's prophets

............we muslims treated the jews well, historically
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.sabbath for jews on saturday

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ustad somad on shariat, tareqat, hakikat and makrifat etc etc and etc....[ including dr mahathir mohd's gold dinar scheme...]

[  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zppdKXUZpLE   ]



















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